Stadium Updates (All Clubs)

[EatYerGreens]

Gigs are being planned for the last season in Dalymount.

Ryan Gigs themed away shirt incoming then...

[Nesta99]

I cant wait to see the plans for the multi-use basketball court that St Olivers Community School in Drogheda got €7.2m allocated for. I can understand why DUFCs new ground didnt get funding yet when looking for €16m, 7.2 is half hearted but Louth GAA were seeking €7m to finsih their funding but were also overlooked. I wont lose sleep over that but its an odd one with groundwork done, stands on site to be erected, County Board with a couple of million in the bank to add to what Croke Park have agreed and supposedly €15m IIP money ringfenced. There must be some pretty big problems or a bunch of messing at local or organisational level not to get this funding over the line considering what has been committed!!!

[Mr A]

Ryan Gigs themed away shirt incoming then...

Makes sense, if there is anyone associated with playing away from home it's Ryan Giggs.

And since it wasn't very far away from home it's a perfect fit for a Dublin club.

[bohsmug]

Sad yes - but long overdue tbh.



Definitely needs doing. Even me saying it'll be sad "when" Dalymount is knocked hints at a bit of self deception. A significant portion of it has already been demolished.

[2 Year Contract]

Good progress made on the Brandywell even since last week!

https://x.com/bradley_steve/status/1854529843318214773?s=46

[Nesta99]

Precast/prefab really does come together so quickly. I just dont get why some projects would still use poured concrete unless there is someone in the pockets of concrete product providers or builder, not looking at any project in particular. It does beg the question why stands havent come down in price in any significant way and are millions of Euro. Regulations from UEFA I presume on steel based stuctures, not ulike bleachers in the US, should be rlaxed for small venues. Between Tallaght, Sligo now, Derry also, Dalymount and other projects in the works, added to crowds being up and our sides being in European groups semi regularly its is pretty much a wish list from Foot.ie circa 2001 happening. Tbh 25 years for things to happen doesnt even seem that long by usual norms.

[nr637]

Good progress made on the Brandywell even since last week!

https://x.com/bradley_steve/status/1854529843318214773?s=46

Looks impressive, always great when you see LOI stadiums being improved, I reckon Derry fans are already looking forward to the new season and having the a new viewing option. :)

[pateen]

Any monies mentioned for Turners Cross?

[Shearer]

Any monies mentioned for Turners Cross?
Got funding in the Sports Capital Grant in September.

[brendy_éire]

Any monies mentioned for Turners Cross?

Are there plans for Turners Cross?

[2 Year Contract]

Get whoever’s building the new Brandywell stand to do the new Dalymount, Showgrounds, Richmond, Drogs stadium and the lot will be done by the start of next season at the rate they’re going :)

https://x.com/bradley_steve/status/1855002538161979655?s=46

[oriel]

Brilliant to see so many grounds improving around the league.

One thing though that it constant, there is no way any one club could have moved forward without capital grant to pay for most / all of it, or for it to be owned by local authority or a football association. Fair play to Sligo for their 16.4M grant, the application I heard was top class, and the late Tommie Gorman helped with it I heard, plus Sligo had a club rep also working in the council, so it was nailed on to succeed, again fair play to them.

Its about time domestic football in this country has started to get serious money in, never sat right with me why the GAA got an almost free stadium built in Croke Park, is there any debt there, I don't think so, plus it was multi millions, dwarfed what Sligo got, 'take the money guys'. The GAA stadium in Cork is in debt but that was due to an over spend.

Sligo have proven to be the template, do your homework correctly, run your house in order, all bills paid, live within your means, and aim high, good luck to them.

Same for Derry who have the unique situation of being able to draw down money from a jurisdiction they are within but don't play games in a competition in, again its just great to see.

Dundalk are in no position to apply for Large Scale Grant given current position, and to be totally frank, its our own fault for spending all euro monies on dominating Irish football from 2014-2020, what is there to show for all of that now, website stats, wiki searches, that's about it.

[redobit]

Get whoever’s building the new Brandywell stand to do the new Dalymount, Showgrounds, Richmond, Drogs stadium and the lot will be done by the start of next season at the rate they’re going :)

https://x.com/bradley_steve/status/1855002538161979655?s=46

Standard enough to be fair. Its all pre fabricated. None of the elements of structure are built on site. Concrete and steel built in a factory somewhere and assemble on site.

[TonyD]

Get whoever’s building the new Brandywell stand to do the new Dalymount, Showgrounds, Richmond, Drogs stadium and the lot will be done by the start of next season at the rate they’re going :)

https://x.com/bradley_steve/status/1855002538161979655?s=46

It looks from that picture as if the stand only goes about halfway across the pitch ? Hopefully not.

[joey B]

It looks from that picture as if the stand only goes about halfway across the pitch ? Hopefully not.

That’s just one section of it ,it goes right the way behind the goal…..

[nr637]

Could Drogheda's Cup win now be used by the club to persuade Town Planners & local TD's who know doubt have jumped on the 'magic of the Cup' bandwagon, to consider the clubs plans for new stadium plans and facilities!
While, I suppose a win over Bray will also help the club by keeping it's Premiership status also!

[Nesta99]

Town planners and Drog Corp councillors are not opposed to Drogs stadium, LCC have allocated the land, they just wont fund the development. Why would they when there could be money from central govt. They would be involved in the planning and grant application process. The Drogs stadium is on a reserve list i think if another project doesnt draw down their grant they could step in. It is mad that this could be the case while the GAA County Ground didnt even make the reserve list when a lot of grant money has already been spent and everything needed is on site to build including the stand. Drogs proposal is a greenfield site in the vicinity of what will be new road access from the port area of the town that will run north then west twoard the M1 around the northern fringe of the town, like a inner ring road. It will be a major improvement in providing vehicular access from south to north without having to go through the town, should ease traffic for easier access to the hospital and opens up a large tranche of land fo development northside. I think this is the main reason opening up this land with a new road. All development south of the town is now in Co Meath and has been for years. LCC miss out on planny levy income for ost developments in Drogheda but carry the bulk of the cost of administrating the largest part of the town north of the Boyne roughly. This allows LCC to cash in, and help balance the growth of the town equally on both directions from the town centre. Not pariculrly relevent to the potential stadium but some context especially as past plans for similar areas were rejected with no infrastructure. If there is a pitfall for the stadium plan it will be timing ie will services be in place before the stadium or could it be open but not able to go online, connext to water and sewage et al.

Any club with an ounce of sense should be frantically be engaging project development consultants with this sort of money being bandied about. It is not policy to give to some and not to others as long as applications, plans and execution/commencement is up to scratch and there isnt historical issues. I kind of wondered how Dundalk could be allocated grants for pitch and lights when owing money to revenue as surely a tax compliance cert is needed and if you are not compliant?? When projects get overlooked like Louth GAA there is always a good reason eg builder has history with the tax man and you wait for another round of grants to reapply with a different builder though in Louth GAAs case the gut instinct is the golden passport funding and whether all those have been fulfilled with the 1mil investment each and job provision actually happened. Funnily enough there are many factions making claim and counterclaim and pointing fingers on why things have been problematic. For the smallest county we are miles apart when it coms to commn ground.

[Tomas]

Any Bohs fans here? Havent been to Phibsboro, or Ireland at all, for about 8 years. Dalymount was really aging at the time. Now I see you have improved on a couple of stands. So what about the stand behind the goal, towards the city. There was nothing at the time. Any progress there? And, my best wishes to "Mick", lovely ol fella responsible for a car park behind the opposite goal, "the Shed". Bless... and a great club pub run by Bohs supporters, in 2013 or so, I could get a pint of Heineken/Carlsberg for something like 3,20 euro. Can imagine its double that price these days.

[2 Year Contract]

Any Bohs fans here? Havent been to Phibsboro, or Ireland at all, for about 8 years. Dalymount was really aging at the time. Now I see you have improved on a couple of stands. So what about the stand behind the goal, towards the city. There was nothing at the time. Any progress there? And, my best wishes to "Mick", lovely ol fella responsible for a car park behind the opposite goal, "the Shed". Bless... and a great club pub run by Bohs supporters, in 2013 or so, I could get a pint of Heineken/Carlsberg for something like 3,20 euro. Can imagine it’s double that price these days.

The whole ground is being knocked down and redeveloped, with the pitch rotating 90 degrees from its current position. Some pictures of what it’s due to look like here: https://www.newstalk.com/news/pictures-heres-what-the-new-8000-seater-dalymount-park-will-look-like-1641841

2025 is apparently Bohs last year in the current Dalymount before moving out for a few years for redevelopment

[Glen Of Aherlow]

The whole ground is being knocked down and redeveloped, with the pitch rotating 90 degrees from its current position. Some pictures of what it’s due to look like here: https://www.newstalk.com/news/pictures-heres-what-the-new-8000-seater-dalymount-park-will-look-like-1641841

2025 is apparently Bohs last year in the current Dalymount before moving out for a few years for redevelopment

Has to be a bit of worry as a LOI fan moving out of your ground while it's being redeveloped , will things go on years longer than expected ?

[Shinkicker]

Any Bohs fans here? Havent been to Phibsboro, or Ireland at all, for about 8 years. Dalymount was really aging at the time. Now I see you have improved on a couple of stands. So what about the stand behind the goal, towards the city. There was nothing at the time. Any progress there? And, my best wishes to "Mick", lovely ol fella responsible for a car park behind the opposite goal, "the Shed". Bless... and a great club pub run by Bohs supporters, in 2013 or so, I could get a pint of Heineken/Carlsberg for something like 3,20 euro. Can imagine its double that price these days.
The whole place is in poor condition. To be fair, credit to the people who have kept it going, but that's all part of the nostalgia and charm of it. Getting knocked down sometime next year, turned 90° and rebuilt to hold approx 8,000.

[DonegalHoop]

Why its important to get all the funding in place and up front. Especially with an election coming up

[Buckett]

Just noticed the astro beside Tallaght Stadium. Does that belong to Rovers?

[D24Saint]

Just noticed the astro beside Tallaght Stadium. Does that belong to Rovers?

South Dublin County council like the rest of the place I’d say. The SDCC are pumping a nice few quid into facilities in fairness to them.

[Glen Of Aherlow]

On Second Captains this week David Sneyd mentioned that Pat's were looking at ways to increase capacity in the short term for next season. Has anyone heard any details? There might be issues with making the full shed available to home fans given the narrow access point via the Camac and with access from the other side blocked by the away section.

I wonder if removing the seats in the singing section would be a runner from a health and safety perspective. Opens up twice as many rows, given that everyone stands in there anyway. Would reduce European capacity but later rounds are held in Tallaght anyway.

There's probably room to slightly expand the Patrons' Stand behind the goal but not sure if that's feasible practically or financially.

Any more word on this , is it likely to happen ?

[pateen]

Spotted some work going on at Kerry FC, facebook page I think. Is there some new building works going on there?

[Kingdom]

Just noticed the astro beside Tallaght Stadium. Does that belong to Rovers?

No, SDCC own it.

3 of my kids train there, with 3 separate teams from 3 separate clubs - none affiliated with Rovers or SDCC.

[Shearer]

Spotted some work going on at Kerry FC, facebook page I think. Is there some new building works going on there?
I think the post you're on about is photos of work being done to the ground prior to their first season.

[culloty82]

I think the post you're on about is photos of work being done to the ground prior to their first season.

Perhaps, but they recently received a grant of circa €300k, so more renovations are planned prior to the new season, mostly on replacing the astro turf, but also at the away end, I believe.

[joey B]

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Bray destroying one of the best pitches in the country by installing an artificial surface,didn’t say a word about it to their supporters either……

[total hoofball]

Putting down another hideous injury inducing artificial pitch will not inspire any confidence for Bray fans over the on-field ambitions of their Cabinteely owners

[brendy_éire]

Ridiculous decision.
The sooner they're banned, the better.
Thing is, even if they're banned tomorrow, you'll have to give clubs 10 years to change over, so as to not financially disadvantage them. Bray will still be sitting with that pitch in 2034.

[Neish]

1859274173656264843

Bray destroying one of the best pitches in the country by installing an artificial surface,didn’t say a word about it to their supporters either……

Just when you thought we have one less artificial pitch with Dundalk getting rid of theirs Bray go and get one

[oriel]

Just when you thought we have one less artificial pitch with Dundalk getting rid of theirs Bray go and get one

Unfortunately it seems its a replacement 4g and not a return to grass, I'd almost pull out for a year if it meant going back to grass, you even miss that magical late spring, late autumn smell of it.

[oriel]

Good progress made on the Brandywell even since last week!

https://x.com/bradley_steve/status/1854529843318214773?s=46

Does anyone know the approx cost of the new stand in the Brandywell ? There must have been notice sent given the cost is funded by local council?

[joey B]

Does anyone know the approx cost of the new stand in the Brandywell ? There must have been notice sent given the cost is funded by local council?

I don’t think the council is funding that stand,fairly sure the owner is….

https://www.derryjournal.com/sport/football/derry-citys-new-north-terrace-stand-to-cost-brandywell-club-in-region-of-ps2million-4361742#

Cost in the region of 2 million according to that from last year….

[bohsmug]

The same chap that posted the earlier pictures of the new stand is great for giving updates (for anyone who hasn't seen the ones from last week: https://x.com/bradley_steve/status/1859032295585575033)

It looks like an absolutely class covered terrace. I wish new Dalymount had the space to put something like that in... one end may look a little like that in the corner but it's closer to a smaller version of the Dell/Southampton. Hopefully will look well but the terrace in Derry looks brilliant.

** Edited to include new image from official club account: https://x.com/derrycityfc/status/1861048561040822587

[oriel]

Looks a great job to be fair, new development at Brandywell.

[holidaysong]

Premier Sports 1 are doing an election debate on sport at 8pm tonight. I'm sure we can expect the funding of League of Ireland infrastructure to come up.

https://x.com/PremSportsIRL/status/1861001962986033302?t=3HC5krR84J5QWSQc9k9Aow&s=19

[D24Saint]

Premier Sports 1 are doing an election debate on sport at 8pm tonight. I'm sure we can expect the funding of League of Ireland infrastructure to come up.

https://x.com/PremSportsIRL/status/1861001962986033302?t=3HC5krR84J5QWSQc9k9Aow&s=19

Don’t have Premier Sports but looking a some of clips online. Seems to be an interesting discussion.

[holidaysong]

It was good alright. St. Pat's fan vs Shelbourne fan in the first half. Panel substitution for the second half, so it changed to Shamrock Rovers vs Dundalk. Matt Cooper reffed it.

From a LOI point of view, it wasn't just infrastructure touched on but also the funding of academies, how this is impacted by Brexit and cutting of the exodus of 16 year olds to the UK, the actual viability of a professional league and also the horse and greyhound funding / betting levy topic.

[DonegalHoop]

Was there any broad agreement on whats required or just individual party reps saying what they could do if elected?

[EatYerGreens]

Is this available to re-watch/catch-up anywhere?

[joey B]

It’s on Premier sports YouTube page

[Glen Of Aherlow]

See Pats have posted the following on Twitter

?? “Season Tickets Now on General Sale!

Season tickets for the Camac and Patrons Stand are now available to the general public!

Our ground is currently undergoing developments. If these are completed as planned, we’ll have increased availability in the Main Stand and Section G.

For those on the waiting list for these sections, we will be in touch as soon as we know more!”

Anyone know what exactly is involved ?

[nigel-harps1954]

https://www.donegallive.ie/resizer/640/-1/true/2024_12_10/Screenshot_2024-12-10_at_08.22.25_Cropped-1733820872538.jpg--renewed_hope_for__finn_harps__stadium_move_as_fres h_planning_application_lodged.jpg?1733820872726

https://www.donegallive.ie/news/soccer/1676850/renewed-hope-for-finn-harps-stadium-move-as-fresh-planning-application-lodged.html

Fresh planning application for 5,580 capacity stadium in Stranorlar lodged with the hope this is finally it. Funding in place and ready to go once planning is completed.

[Glen Of Aherlow]

https://www.donegallive.ie/resizer/640/-1/true/2024_12_10/Screenshot_2024-12-10_at_08.22.25_Cropped-1733820872538.jpg--renewed_hope_for__finn_harps__stadium_move_as_fres h_planning_application_lodged.jpg?1733820872726

https://www.donegallive.ie/news/soccer/1676850/renewed-hope-for-finn-harps-stadium-move-as-fresh-planning-application-lodged.html

Fresh planning application for 5,580 capacity stadium in Stranorlar lodged with the hope this is finally it. Funding in place and ready to go once planning is completed.

When this is hopefully built , do you think there is a reasonable prospect of getting the crowds to justify it ?

[nigel-harps1954]

When this is hopefully built , do you think there is a reasonable prospect of getting the crowds to justify it ?

Nah, should just scrap the whole thing and build a pitch and a little hut for 50 people.

What justification is needed to build a modest capacity stadium? It's not Wembley we're talking about here.

[Glen Of Aherlow]

Nah, should just scrap the whole thing and build a pitch and a little hut for 50 people.

What justification is needed to build a modest capacity stadium? It's not Wembley we're talking about here.

Sorry was'nt having a go at you there and justify was the wrong word .

Was just wondering if you think it will lead to a substantial increase in attendances

[Neish]

Was just wondering if you think it will lead to a substantial increase in attendances

As much (if not more) chance as several other LOI clubs talking of building/renovating to have 10-15k capacity venues